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Flora Gomes

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 1006865

IMDb ID: nm0326884

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Cadique, Guinea-Bissau

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1976 - 2012

Years active: 37

Wikidata: Q2442793

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Biography

Flora Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean film director. He was born in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau on 31 December 1949 and after high school in Cuba, he decided to study film at the Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos in Havana. Shot fourteen years after independence, Gomes's Mortu Nega (Death Denied) (1988) was the first fiction film and the second feature film ever made in Guinea-Bissau. (The first feature film was N’tturudu, by director Umban u’Kest in 1987.) Description above from the Wikipedia article Flora Gomes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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